Pilot-job systems have emerged as a computation paradigm to cope with heterogeneity of production grids, greatly improving fault ratios and latency. Tools like DIANE, WISDOM-II, To...
Current video search systems commonly return video shots as results. We believe that users may better relate to longer, semantic video units and propose a retrieval framework for n...
Robin Aly, Aiden R. Doherty, Djoerd Hiemstra, Alan...
Distance measures like the Euclidean distance have been the most widely used to measure similarities between feature vectors in the content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. H...
Riadh Ksantini, Djemel Ziou, Bernard Colin, Fran&c...
The paper describes the application of SDL-92[1] and OMT[2] to the design of a V5.x Access Network interface. While OMT is used to model the management aspects of the system, typi...
Large-scale and dynamically changing distributed systems such as the Grid, peer-to-peer overlays, etc., need to collect several kinds of global statistics in a decentralized manne...